ENG221.000 Spring 2017
Details Length: 750 – 1000 word analytical essay Due: 3/28 Tone: “Academic casual” Audience: You’re writing about your personal experiences, but an analytical essay exploring issues from your personal experiences for a general audience. Format: Publish as a page on your site, […]
We started class today with a think-pair-share activity and ended up with these questions/observations about the reading on the board: The lack of low-income students at elite schools is due to lack of/poor outreach and lack of information/access not the lack […]
9 3/14 Dylan Matthews in Vox “These colleges are better than Harvard at making poor kids rich” and Gregor Aisch, Larry Buchanan, Amanda Cox and Kevin Quealy in NYT “Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom […]
This week on The Web We Weave, Daniel Park and Kevin Kilgour discuss Tony Zhou’s “Every Frame a Painting.” What niche does this video essay series fill that others do not? What are the advantages of spreading a series across […]
In this week’s episode of the Web We Weave, we apply a critical lens to the new media surrounding “Westworld,” a series on HBO created by Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan. Although the show itself is a form of old […]
8 2/28 Sarah Hendren “All Technology Is Assistive: Six design rules on “disability” Screen reader demo 3/2 Ian Bogost “Why Nothing Works Anymore: Technology has its own purposes” Anil Dash “The Web We Lost“ This week we’ll talk about accessibility […]
I meant to say in class today that I made some edits to the podcast schedule. I believe that I checked in with everyone directly affected by the changes, but please do double check the schedule in the Google doc […]
7 2/21 Listening Project — reply to your peers, brainstorm questions, what are the objectives. Listen to the first two podcast episodes carefully. Be prepared to discuss the episodes, observe the lessons you can take away from them as you […]
Once you have completed your podcast episode, you should publish a reflection post. Embed the Soundcloud episode in your post (if I haven’t published the episode yet when you publish your post, just edit the post later to add the link once […]
The first two episodes are up on our SoundCloud account and posted in the Podcasts category. Our podcast feed has also been approved in iTunes, so you can also subscribe to it in iTunes or with your favorite podcasting app. […]
